desporto

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

desporte

Etymology

From Old French desport, variant of deport (“fun, amusement”), from Latin deportāre.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /desˈpoʁ.tu/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /desˈpoɾ.tu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /deʃˈpoʁ.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /desˈpoɻ.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨʃˈpoɾ.tu/

Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾtu, (Brazil) -oʁtu
Hyphenation: des‧por‧to

Noun

desporto m (plural desportos, metaphonic)

(Portugal) sport
Synonym: (Brazil) esporte

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Tetum: desportu

Further reading

“desporto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

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